| Location: Cypress,TX, Member Since: Oct 10, 2009 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: 5K: 24:22 (March 2010); 22:33 (October 2010); 20:47 (May 2011); 21:05 (May 2012); 21:33 (September 2012); 21:23 (November, 2013); 22:31 (September 2014)
5M: 39:22 (November, 2012); 35:54 (November, 2013); 36:03 (March, 2015)
10K: 44:08 (November, 2010); 49:20 (July, 2013); 44:07 (April, 2015)
12K: 56:03 (December, 2013); 58:58 (December, 2014)
10M: 1:11:58 (October, 2012); 1:15:24 (October, 2014)
Half Marathon: 1:53:xx (London's Run 2010); 2:05:21 (Cowtown 2010); 1:37:04 (Gusher 2011); 1:42:19 (Huntsville 2011); 1:33:47 (Baytown Jailbreak 2012); 1:33:50 (The Woodlands 2012); 1:42:52 (Texas 2015); 1:49:17 (Jailbreak 2015); 1:38:34 (The Woodlands 2015)
25K: 2:01:47 (Fifth Third River Bank, May 2014)
Marathon: 5:51:35 (Texas Marathon 2009); 6:21:36 (Ogden 2009); 4:58:29 (St. George 2009); 4:13:45 (Texas Marathon 2010); 4:04:12 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2010); 5:11:14 (Hartford ING, 2010); 3:41:43 (Richmond SunTrust, 2010); 3:39:27 (Texas Marathon 2011); 3:41:46 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2011); 3:30:35 (St. George 2011); 3:41:51 (Richmond 2012); 3:49:15 (Texas 2013); 3:46:59 (Paavo Nurmi, 2013); 3:34:04 (St. George 2013); 3:49:51 (Texas 2014); 3:31:59 (Richmond 2014); 3:28:34 (Boston 2015) Short-Term Running Goals: 3:20, 1:30, 0:20 Long-Term Running Goals: I'm 60, there is no long term. Personal: I live, work and run in Houston, Texas. I have run 17 marathons, some good ones and some others. I prefer straight, flat, cold, sea-level marathons, still waiting for my first one. I feel like there are more PRs out there. When I have them, I am told it is time to dial it back, run for healthy reasons. I'm sure that's right, and I'm sure it won't happen.
My wife and I are from the mountains of the west. We have five kids, three granddaughters and three grandsons. The kids and grandkids are native Texans but we are not -- you have to be born here.
As for my blog title: I run most of my miles before sunrise, sometimes hours before. On the back road of my neighborhood two hours before daylight, I can depend on a pack of mutts behind the boundary fence lighting up when they hear my footsteps. I have wondered what they wanted; but according to Hemingway I needn't ask. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 28.54 | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 32.74 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.18 |
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41F, 79%, NE 18-22 mph and raining. Great running weather. Into the teeth of a n'easter I suppose, except this is the Gulf Coast. But that didn't stop me from imagining I was running the docks in New England with the waves crashing in. 5.37 nautical miles in 54:24, 10:10 pace, 155 bpm. 4 bpm higher than Saturday, 38 seconds per regular mile faster, still not good but at least an improvement.
I'm still going to go get a physical, though I haven't quite thought through how to explain my concerns. Me: "Doc, my times are ballooning, just ran a 3:49 marathon when I should have run a 3:19, something is seriously wrong." Doc, after a pregnant pause: "How far was that marathon?" | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.18 |
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36F, 100%, NW 10 mph and raining steadily. Pretty nasty out there, almost turned back but once I started I was on autopilot. Still, I admit I took a perverse pleasure in it, maybe I felt a bit more virtuous than some of my lazy neighbors. Even UnaTed was tucked safely beneath his down comforter. I briefly considered ringing his doorbell, but thought it might be connected to an explosive device. Either that or an unpleasant encounter with UnaWife.
I decided to run slow and did I ever. 10:02 per mile, but even at that speed my heart rate was 141 bpm. Just taking it day by day -- I have lost aerobic conditioning from not running slow for a year, that is probably the main explanation for my problems. Have to run slow in order to run fast. I may have to go back down to 11:00 per mile in order to rebuild. Either that or throw it all out the window and just run fast between now and Boston, but my legs don't seem to be able to sustain much of that right now. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.18 |
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27F, 96% and calm. Getting pretty cold out there, but much more comfortable than the wind and rain on Monday. Ran 6.18 miles in 57:37, 9:19/mile, 147 bpm.
No running yesterday due to work commitments. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| 37F, 96% and calm. Bright and clear, lost the long pants today and it was fine. Woke up after 4 hours of sleep to some e-mails from China and had to be at a downtown meeting at 8:00 a.m., so oly time to run 4 miles, and fast ones at that. 4.38 miles in 34:34, 7:53 per mile, 8:29 (150), 7:43 (160), 7:57 (164) and 7:25 (171), max 175 bpm. Felt pretty good all day after airing it out a little bit this morning, although I was dragging by the afternoon. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 36F, 97% and calm. Another beautiful morning -- two shirts, gloves, beanie and shorts was just about right. Ran 10.0 in 1:39:52, 9:59 per mile, 137 bpm, 142 max. Pretty humiliating to run that slow, but it is what I need. I swear I could feel the conditioning coming back into my muscles -- just an illusion I know but illusions count. I decided, between now and Boston, not to do any running between 140 and 160 bpm. Either slow or fast, nothing in between. After Boston I'll probably move that to 135/165. I think the last two training cycles have shown that for me there really is such a thing as junk miles. Just because I feel stiff, tired and sore after a run doesn't mean I got anything out of it. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 28.54 | 4.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 32.74 |
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